Re: Program for quoting text like in email?
On Mon, 2009-06-08 at 20:05 -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 11:03:39AM +1200, Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> was heard to say:
> > :s/^/> /
> >
> > should work for the quoting, as with the sed example someone else gave.
>
> You have to put a range in there or it'll only hit the current line:
>
> :0,$s/^/> /
True. I usually use visual mode - shift-v and cursors (or G to jump to
the bottom, in this case) to select the lines, then I only type what I
did above, and it sticks in the range automatically.
Richard
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